Friday: famous names
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tigriswolf and today's theme is famous names. Prompts can be anyone named for someone famous, or someone trying to live up to a name, or anything like that.
Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and fandom's full name for ease adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut.
If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!
Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ author's choice, author's choice, wrestling with the fact you'll never be as amazing as the person whose name you were given
+ Harry Potter, author's choice, Harry is the most popular name in Britain for decades
We use AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2016 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 1 (not very current), Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 2, or the Calendar Archives, or for more recent prompts, you can use LJ's advanced search options to find prompts to request and/or fill.
While the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheets and LJ's advanced search options are available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching for in the future.
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tigriswolf and today's theme is famous names. Prompts can be anyone named for someone famous, or someone trying to live up to a name, or anything like that.Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and fandom's full name for ease adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut.
If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!
Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ author's choice, author's choice, wrestling with the fact you'll never be as amazing as the person whose name you were given
+ Harry Potter, author's choice, Harry is the most popular name in Britain for decades
We use AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2016 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 1 (not very current), Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 2, or the Calendar Archives, or for more recent prompts, you can use LJ's advanced search options to find prompts to request and/or fill.
While the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheets and LJ's advanced search options are available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching for in the future.
tag=famous name
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Date: 2016-08-12 11:30 am (UTC)author's choice, author's choice, wrestling with the fact you'll never be as amazing as the person whose name you were given
By Any Other Name (Star Trek AOS, Sam Kirk)
Date: 2017-01-01 08:34 pm (UTC)"If you'd been a girl I wanted to name you Winona," Daddy tells him once, "after my favourite person in the world. But you were a boy."
"So he named you after his second favourite person," Mommy chimes in with a smile, and Daddy rolls his eyes and pulls her close to kiss her.
The truth is that George is an old family name, passed on through generations, but right then it feels like the best name in the world.
When George is four, Mommy and Daddy leave for a mission in space. He's just turned five when Mommy returns, alone except for the squirming baby in her arms. Your brother, Jim. George learns words like dead, and brave, and hero, and that they're all things he never ever wants to be. If Daddy hadn't been a hero he'd still be here, and Mommy wouldn't be so sad.
It takes George a while to notice that Mommy doesn't use his name any more. Jim gets to be Jim, but George is Sweetie, Baby, Junior. One afternoon he's playing with his toys when Jim crawls over and reaches for one of his trains. Not wanting baby spit all over his things, George quickly pushes him away, and Jim falls over and begins to cry. In an instant their mother is there, scooping up Jim and rounding on George, eyes blazing. "George Samuel Kirk," she begins, "don't you dare-"
She stops suddenly as if all the fight has gone out of her, and sits down abruptly on the couch. "Don't push your brother," she says, in a very different tone, still absently rocking Jim in her arms as tears begin welling in her eyes.
"I'm sorry, Mommy," George tells her, scrambling to his feet and hugging her legs.
"I know, baby," she says softly. "It's okay." She wipes away the tears and tries to smile, but it doesn't reach her eyes. George just hugs her tighter, wishing, not for the first time, that he'd been named after someone, anyone else.
In the end it's Jim who saves them all, by learning to talk. By ten months he's mastered "Mama" and "Doggy", as well as "No", which he uses a lot. But George isn't satisfied.
"George Samuel Kirk," he says firmly, staring through the bars of Jim's crib. He may hate it, but it's still his name.
"Jor Sam-oo Kir," Jim repeats obediently, then claps his hands together. "Sam!"
"No," George says, but then he pauses. Sam. Sam Kirk.
It has a nice ring to it.
"Sam-sam," Jim says, and George smiles for the first time in a long time.
"Yeah," he says. "Sam-sam."
George Kirk may be a dead hero, but Sam Kirk can be anything he wants to be.
Re: By Any Other Name (Star Trek AOS, Sam Kirk)
Date: 2017-01-05 03:40 am (UTC)Oh my gosh, this is adorable.
Re: By Any Other Name (Star Trek AOS, Sam Kirk)
Date: 2017-01-08 09:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-12 11:31 am (UTC)Harry Potter, author's choice, Harry is the most popular name in Britain for decades
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Date: 2016-08-12 12:32 pm (UTC)author's choice, author's choice, choosing to never use a particular name for children/descendants because of who originally had it
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Date: 2016-08-12 08:51 pm (UTC)"So I was thinking." Frank keeps his voice light as he sits down on the couch beside Jenny, lets his fingers trail lightly across the swell of her stomach. As if she knows he's there, their daughter kicks and he can't help but grin. Jenny does too, even if hers is a little watery - she's been on the edge of tears all day, ever since she heard those three little words, "It's a girl."Â
Jenny raises one eyebrow but doesn't otherwise comment, waits for him to continue. "What about Abigail for a name?" he asks. "Means 'my father's joy' ... As well as the obvious."Â
But his voice trails off because Jenny is already shaking her head. Her jaw is set and those tears are a lot closer to the surface suddenly. "No," she says and he must look as confused as he feels because she adds quickly, "I know what you're thinking, Frank, and I love you for it, I do..." She swallows hard, lays her hand over his, still on her stomach. "But I want her to have her own name... her own identity..." She swallows again, her voice a bare whisper as she finishes, "Her own destiny."Â
Which Frank can understand. After all, that was part of the reason they'd left Sleepy Hollow, to try to build a life away from the supernatural. Falling pregnant hadn't been in their plans and Frank knew that finding out they were having a daughter, when the duty of a Witness seemed to be passed down through generations of Mills women, had opened up all sorts of fears for Jenny.Â
At least he assumed that that had happened with Jenny - it certainly had for him.Â
"Fair enough," he says, leaning in and kissing the side of her head before leaning down and kissing her stomach. He doesn't sit up straight away, stays cheek to stomach with her and says, "I had some other suggestions... There's Francesca... Francine... Frances spelled with an 'e' though that might be too obvious... What?" Under his chin, her stomach shakes from laughter. "What's so funny?"Â
He looks up at her, blinks exaggeratedly and she runs her hand over the back of his head. "I sense a pattern," she says dryly but her lips are curled in a smile. "How can you make me go from tears to laughter in less than a minute."Â
His answer - "Because I love you... both of you," - takes her back to tears again. "And whatever comes... we're going to be ok."Â
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Date: 2016-08-13 02:46 pm (UTC)Oh, that's lovely. Thank you!
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Date: 2016-08-12 12:33 pm (UTC)Harry Potter, Albus Potter/author's choice, not giving their children the name of a dead person
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Date: 2016-08-12 12:34 pm (UTC)author's choice, author's choice, given a name with a well-known meaning and feeling it's never you
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Date: 2016-08-12 05:32 pm (UTC)Stargate Multiverse, Any, Yet another famous name from history turns out to be an Ancient/Asgardian/etc.
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